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Fertilizing Your Lawn brought to you by the Scotts Company

There are four major considerations in selecting a lawn fertilizer. 1. The Analysis 2. The Nitrogen Release Rate 3. Granule Content 4. Results How to Select a Lawn Fertilizer1. The Analysis This indicates the percentage (by weight) of the three major nutrients in a fertilizer: nitrogen,...

Cutting Comments

With spring's bloom just weeks away, take a look at your shrubs and consider pruning them. To encourage strong growth, cut away dead, damaged or spindly branches. And if you want to reshape the plant, do it now rather than when foliage starts masking the underlying branch structure. Even if a...

Forcing Bulbs for Winter Color

You can add color to your indoor garden during the drab days of winter by forcing bulbs into bloom. Forcing causes bulbs to flower before they normally would outdoors. Start the process in autumn. Buy the best-quality bulbs you can find. When you pick out bulbs, examine them thoroughly. You...

Wintertime Green Thumb

Do you miss the great taste of fresh-from-the-garden spices and veggies? Then start a little mini-garden in your kitchen by planting some fresh herbs and vegetables. It's really pretty easy. All you need are some planters, soil, seeds and light. In well-lit areas, you can grow parsley, chives,...

Come In From the Cold

Before it gets too cold, bring your house plants back indoors. Check the leaves for diseases. If you bring a suffering plant indoors you run the risk of infecting your other plants. Hard as it may be, the solution may be to just throw them away. Once your healthy plants are back indoors and have...

Garage Winterization

Are cracks and openings around your garage door creating a big chill and mess at your house? Are leaves and debris blowing in? Are hoards of insects and rodents coming and going at will? Then, it’s time to stop the mess, the pests and "old man winter" at the point where they enter. It's time...

Wrapping Around the Tree

It's that time again when a lot of folks are bringing home a Christmas tree. In just a few weeks, the same bunch of people will be taking them down again. Right after that nice fresh green tree has dried out and become brittle, needles start falling off everywhere especially when you go to...

Have a Tree-mendous (and SAFE) Holiday

Here are some tips to help to have a beautiful and safe holiday. The key is making sure your tree stays watered. So, before you set up your Christmas tree, make a fresh, straight cut across the base of the trunk (about a quarter inch up from the original cut) and place the tree in a tree stand...

Before You Hang 'Em Up for the Winter

After a summer of planting, transplanting and (not to mention) that awful cramping in your legs, it's time to hang up your gardening tools for a little R&R. However, next spring, you'll be kicking yourself when you find rusted out tools from sticky sap. Now's the time to thoroughly clean your...

Shaking That Raking Habit

If you hate raking as much as I do, then here's a tip that'll cut down your raking time and have your neighbors thinking "Why didn't I think of that?" A smart, effective way to get a thorough cleanup in the yard is to fire up your shop vacuum. It sucks up unwanted seeds and leaves and is rugged...